Today In Wyoming's History

1782  The Decree of Trenton gives the Wyoming region of Ohio and Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania. 1835  Santa Ana declared that all foreigne...

1845 Texas admitted into the Union. While its borders would soon shrink, at first a small portion of Wyoming, previously claimed by Spain, a...

Today is Boxing Day (except when falling on a Sunday, when by Royal Proclamation, it is transferred to Monday). Boxing Day has its orig...

1803 The Louisiana Purchase was completed as the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States during ceremonies in Ne...

1777  Congress declared a Thanksgiving Day following the  British surrender at Saratoga. 1871   A bill providing for the establishment of ...

1619     Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist cavalry commander in the English Civil War, born.  He returned England with the restoration o...

Today is Bill of Rights Day. 1791     The Bill of Rights took effect following ratification by Virginia. 1887  The Burlington Northern c...

1854   Edward Gillette was born in New Haven, Connecticut.  He graduated from the Yale Scientific School in 1876 and took a job with the U.S...